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France going veggie would save 1m litres of water per person each year

A water-intense diet

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By Andy Coghlan

Here’s another good reason for everyone to become a vegetarian. If this happened in the UK, Germany or France, it would slash the amount of water required to make food in each of these countries by between 33 and 55 per cent, a new analysis has concluded.